


Repeatedly, Haugen said Americans deserve transparency and respect for privacy from the tech powerhouse. She specifically made it clear that Facebook puts profits over safety and well-being of its users - including teenagers on Instagram. She argued that the acquisition and retention of millions of users are the foremost driving factors for the social media giant. That is, regardless of the global outage. She’s the evidently credible and persuasive whistleblower! She appeared before the U.S Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Monday. This was the day after the Sunday, October 3 explosive interview on the most-respected and highest-rated news show in America, 60 Minutes.įacebook critic at this time came in the person of Facebook’s former product manager Frances Haugen.

The world was largely quiet on Monday October 4, 2021. The fact of the matter is that some people did not believe that Facebook would let three of its mega-sites to go down, at the same time - arising from some configuration updates! Anything is possible. Zuckerberg & Company classified the curious outages as an error from a “configuration change“. Only four days ago, the influence, power and leverage of the Facebook corporation were manifested in the form of a worldwide outage. There are, at least, 30 other smaller companies with critical technology engagement functions working and ferreting information for the behemoth call Facebook.
